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>Regulatory capture is THE problem. This is difficult for me to understand. Are you suggesting that if nuclear power were completely unregulated, Tepco's behavior would've been mor…

>The media is the reason for this. I don't quite follow. It's not like there is some naturally occurring flow of newspapers, radio and television broadcasts that discuss with the c…

The author said it himself, these errors were caused by humans, not excel. I don't think making excel "smart" enough to prevent people from making dumb mistakes is a good idea. In …

When politicians say "small government" they really mean "low taxes", and when they say "liberty" that is measured as 100% minus the top marginal tax rate. Restrictions on people's…

I prefer we not go back to any oversimplistic analogies. That's part of what makes these debates so insufferable. A nation's economy isn't a household budget. A company isn't a per…

2009 and the internet? This has been the dominant conventional wisdom in all fitness media for at least a decade. If you open any fitness or "men's" magazine in any given month you…

On one hand I think this comment makes a fair point that this isn't a very useful app. The app's creator himself admits that. He didn't expect it to be downloaded much. On the othe…

I'll meet you halfway. It's a terrible comment about a terrible article. I agree that it's laudable to try to invent an improved version of online ratings, but this article wasn't …

Well the three reasons that the author is hating on FB comments are bulleted in his 16 sentence blog post, so it should be relatively easy to figure out why he is hating FB comment…

This statement makes no sense to me. "Being sexist" encompases an absolutely huge range of behaviors. It could mean something as small as making a dumb assumption about what type o…

The claim is that if Apple had to pay the sorts of royalties on Samsung's (and others') technology patents that Apple is asking Samsung to pay on Apple's patent on curved lines, Ap…

People are interested in sports as a demonstration of skill, not of raw physical prowess. That is why golf has it's own channel on TV and distance running is more or less completel…

No definition of entrepreneur that I've been able to find says that the business needs to be sustainable or provide value to customers. So I would answer that the definition has ne…

Software is not analogous because it has been developed from the very start with the knowledge that the bits would be easily copy-able, and has been designed accordingly. I remembe…

For the past couple years I've been using a multiple monitor taskbar tool called Actual Multiple Monitors ( http://www.actualtools.com/multiplemonitors/ ) which I think is superior…

It's a common idiomatic expression and I'd be willing to wager that everyone who read it understood what it meant. I'd also wager that most people could really give a shit if it of…

I disagree. This comment supports Dave's argument about as well as any comment I could imagine reading.

While I am as dubious as the rest of you about how likely we are to actually see this, I appreciated learning that adhesives are one of 3M's 46 core technology platforms. Does anyo…

"You learn that the average new customer brings in $50 in profit over their lifetime" How do you know this figure is independent of your marketing efforts? If I start out paying $1…

I've read it twice in it's entirety, and his main point is that he believes we would be better off changing patent law to create an explicit category for software patents and have …

So, you knew your troll post would be downvoted, as evidenced by your prediction, and yet you still post it and complain about it when it happens? It's not just that your post cont…

Real names enabled facebook users to quickly realize the "real world" social network within facebook, rather than building an entirely new network. I don't know email addresses or …

Maybe I am misreading your argument, but it seems like you are saying the cause of the US deficit problem is that the faction that trades entitlements for votes has gained control …

That doesn't really explain why the groups with 100% women did so well, or why the groups that were 50/50 did worse than the groups of all men or all women. Maybe I'm trying to tak…